Quotes About Persona

Never look directly into the camera, stare off. Nobody wants to see those eyes, they want to see the bod.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured.

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves that they want to project, and they want to color statements by this image.

My Twitter account status used to say 'part-time playboy' on it, but I've taken that down now.

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

The hard part of being a celebrity is staying one!

Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.

You're out there to perform. You're out there to entertain. Whatever position that you're put in, be it a heel or a babyface, go out there steal the show.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

When I stepped into the industry, I was dealt this bizarre persona of being this sarcastic fashionista 'it girl' who is friends with loads of celebrities. That couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves.

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

Under all that sunny generosity of Wilder's, who's really there? What's under that mask? Is there a mask? Theater is the place of masks. Do the three